Monday, July 25, 2011

My plan was to make Chicken Quesadillas...Here is how I turned a major food crisis into a major food win!!

One of my favorite quick things to do is to put chicken breasts, enchilada sauce and some taco mix into my crock pot and let it cook for a few hours (this also works if the chicken is still frozen!!!). It is then easy to shred. We make quesadillas, nachos, tacos, taco salads etc. I had the chicken cooked and ready to go, but with camping and camping near a city, I hadn't got my poop in a group and brought or bought tortillas...sooooo...NACHOS!!

I always bring disposable aluminum pans, we use them to keep things warm and occasionally cook in them. I took one, sprayed vegetable spray on the bottom and started layering chips, chicken and cheese just like normal. I then covered it and let it "bake" in the camp stove. Easy, yummy, crisis averted!! We now have another meal to add to our camping menu!!

Easy, yummy, crisis averted!! We now have another meal to add to our camping menu!! Renee'

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Every year our family takes a camping trip for our family vacation (more about that later), this year is no exception. There are a few food traditions we have. One of them is homemade Oatmeal Scotchie cookies. This year has been a little harder to get ready for so I decided to try making my cookies into bar cookies and to use more organic and healthy (snicker, snicker) ingredients.

So here goes.

This recipe is adapted from the Nestle's Butterscotch Morsels Package.

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Today it is suppose to be 115 in Phoenix and we have wildfires raging in Arizona...not a good time for a campfire. But S'mores sound so good!! A couple of weeks ago, I came across a recipe for S'mores bars and just had to try them!!

2. In large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until light. Beat in egg and vanilla.

3. In a small bowl, whisk together flour, graham cracker crumbs, baking powder and salt. Add to butter mixture and mix at low speed until combined.

4. Press half of graham cracker mixture into the bottom of your pan.

5. Line with chocolate bars, you will need to break some to make them fit.

6. Gently spread the marshmallow fluff onto the chocolate.

7. Then you can either pat out sections of the graham cracker mixture and lay it on the marshmallow, or crumble it across the top and press together.

Bake for 30 to 35 minutes, until lightly browned. The pan that was more "crumbled" had Fluff that puffed up and turned a little brown and crunchy....Yum!!

Cool completely before cutting into bars (I put mine in the fridge on a rack after cooling on the counter for a while. I live in Phoenix). If you do refrigerate them, let them sit for a bit at room temperature before serving. The marshmallow gets gooey :) That's if you can wait that long!! Makes 16 to 20 bars.

P.S. I did buy some glassine paper cups to put mine in. They make it much easier for people to grab one without getting goo all over them.